From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:53:16 +0800
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Subject: CLT&G Update: 29 Dec 98 (fwd)
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> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:57:08 -0500
> From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
> Subject: CLT&G Update: 29 Dec 98

>      Jefferson and Madison were fearful, as more Americans should
>   be today, of allowing power to be concentrated in the central
>   government.

The entire point of a consitutional democracy is to avoid centralization.
A better way to word this is that we should be afraid of the federal
government becoming the central government.


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